Chai YI ming’s paintings manage to take on a jarring personality: the content is full of disparate elements such as disjointed body parts, erotica, fantastic beasts, flowers, and free-floating organic forms. The combination of any one of these things frequently emerges, although more often than not they all appear at once. His paintings function more as an opportunity to gather these incredulous elements—the artist usually ignores social signs and other cues—than as a means to a discernible narrative. As a result, the distinction between abstraction versus ornate story-telling is often blurred.
